Photo: Pina de Fuego Cocktail
Tequila and Mezcal cocktails are a fun bit of cocktails to make. Tequila can be sweet, dark, rich and have so much flavor. Mezcal is rich, smokey and adds so much flavor to cocktails!
Most anything can be mixed with tequila or mezcal, one of our favorites is grapefruit juice. But, we also love margaritas, and using it in anything with spice.
Mezcal has been fun for us making some tiki cocktails, and like with tequila with grapefruit juice, or in a margarita, or as a replacement for whisky in some cocktails!
We featured the sweet and spicy flavors flavors of Dorothy Lynch, pineapple, tequila and mezcal to create this unusual, delicious cocktail! We love a good challenge, and when we were asked to work with a classic Nebraska flavor, we couldn’t pass up the chance to play around with something sweet, tangy, and foundRead more
This fall margarita is a great flavor combo of spicy triple sec and apple cider! We wanted to make a margarita for fall, and we wanted to make sure to have some of the flavors that are relevant in autumn! In our cocktail garden, we have an abundance of rosemary, and we knowRead more
A Coffee and Banana Tiki Cocktail that’s a great combo of tropical flavors! This summer has been crazy season, with lots of overtime at work and not nearly enough cocktail blogging! All that extra work means a whole bunch of time dreaming about vacations to far away destinations like someplace with a beachRead more
In the spirit of both Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby, here is a Mexican mint julep cocktail to celebrate them together! So what do you do when two celebrations fall on the same day? In the spring there aren’t a whole lot of holidays or events that call for big celebrations,Read more
A fabulous Tiki drink with gin and mezcal Cocktail, that takes away the winter doldrums! When you hear the word Tiki, you typically think of being served a sweet rum soaked cocktail full of fruit (and we love those!) but as more folks explore the world of Tiki, all kinds of drinksRead more
A twist on the classic Paloma cocktail recipe, we added some strawberry flavor to this Strawberry Paloma! While all the craze on the days leading up to Cinco de Mayo was about margaritas, we were drinking another great Mexican cocktail the Paloma. We needed a good drink for the weekend festivities andRead more
Great, light simple tequila drinks, perfect for anytime of the year! One of the cool perks of being a cocktail blogger is getting the chance to try out lots of other spirits than the old sorts that we are all familiar with from our days drinking in college. One spirit that weRead more
A Spicy tequila and pineapple cocktail! One of our best tequila drinks packs a punch! When the calendar rolls around to the end of April, it never fails that our social media feed fills up with lots of pictures and recipes of margarita. These are to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. While we loveRead more
A great combo of rosemary, tequila and grapefruit! Tequila is one the spirits that we have a real love and hate relationship, because a lot of the experiences with tequila were those we had back in our college days when we were drinking cheap tequila in badly mixed cocktails or shots. Recently, weRead more
A warm winter orange cocktail with spices from the chai tea and lemon are in this hot toddy! Tequila is normally one of those spirits that you think about having while sitting on a warm sunny beach, but we have found it can be surprisingly delightful in a number of drinks that areRead more